2-714-888 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Ground Plan of New Road from Islington to Edgware Road, 1755', (c1876). The New Road from Paddington to Islington opened in 1756 as London's first bypass along which to drive cattle to Smithfield Market avoiding central London. From "Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places. The Western and Northern Studies", by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York]